inconsistent
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From in- + consistent.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]inconsistent (comparative more inconsistent, superlative most inconsistent)
- Not consistent:
- Antonym: consistent
- Not compatible (with another thing); incompatible, discrepant, at odds.
- His account of the evening was inconsistent with the security-camera footage.
- Lacking internal consistency; self-contradicting; not compatible with itself.
- He gave an inconsistent account of the evening, saying he called her before eight, but later that he had not talked to her until after nine.
- 1862, Robert Aspland, editor, The Christian Reformer:
- He was one of those men of inconsistent politics, governed at once by prejudice and sympathies, whose 'attitude' it is impossible to foretell.
- Not consistent or coherent in thought or behavior.
- 1848, The Columbian Magazine, volume 9, page 88:
- “Take him for better or worse,” added Mr. Lee, “and I think he is the strangest and most inconsistent man I ever saw.”
“Inconsistent!” resumed Mr. Jones. “He is worse than inconsistent. Inconsistencies may be pardoned as constitutional defects [...]”
- (logic) Having the property that a contradiction can be derived.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]not compatible
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not consistent
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From in- + consistent.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]inconsistent m or f (masculine and feminine plural inconsistents)
- inconsistent
- Antonym: consistent
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “inconsistent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “inconsistent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “inconsistent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “inconsistent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From in- + consistent.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Adjective
[edit]inconsistent (comparative inconsistenter, superlative inconsistentst)
- inconsistent
- Antonym: consistent
Declension
[edit]Declension of inconsistent | ||||
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uninflected | inconsistent | |||
inflected | inconsistente | |||
comparative | inconsistenter | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | inconsistent | inconsistenter | het inconsistentst het inconsistentste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | inconsistente | inconsistentere | inconsistentste |
n. sing. | inconsistent | inconsistenter | inconsistentste | |
plural | inconsistente | inconsistentere | inconsistentste | |
definite | inconsistente | inconsistentere | inconsistentste | |
partitive | inconsistents | inconsistenters | — |
Derived terms
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French inconsistant. Equivalent to in- + consistent.
Adjective
[edit]inconsistent m or n (feminine singular inconsistentă, masculine plural inconsistenți, feminine and neuter plural inconsistente)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative- accusative |
indefinite | inconsistent | inconsistentă | inconsistenți | inconsistente | |||
definite | inconsistentul | inconsistenta | inconsistenții | inconsistentele | ||||
genitive- dative |
indefinite | inconsistent | inconsistente | inconsistenți | inconsistente | |||
definite | inconsistentului | inconsistentei | inconsistenților | inconsistentelor |
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